November 2015 Babies

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Is anyone giving baby announcement gift at hospital?

NotanAprilFools wrote:

I don't think I've read any posts about this yet. Are any of you giving out a little announcement gift to friends & family who visit you at the hospital??? For example way back in the day they used to give out cigars, then it switched to candy cigars. On Pinterest I've seen the Hershey's announcement! Does anyone do this anymore????

When my son was born, we presented small gifts to the grandma's. My mom collects pewter figurines so she got a small pewter bear with a blue bow on its neck. My MIL had given me a prayer box a couple of years before that had belonged to her mother. Her gift was a prayer box bracelet with crystal beads. We have not selected gifts this time but I like to acknowledge the love and support they have provided us in our upbringing as well as in our adulthood.

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elizabeth283

Not to offend you, but... Oh my gosh no! Too many gifts! Between shower gifts, sibling gifts, doctors gifts, nurse gifts, hostess gifts, push presents for mom, push presents for dad, , now visitors gifts? It's just too much. The baby is the gift. That's it. We don't always have to be out spending money and time on all these things. It just seems ridiculous. More power to you if you want to get people presents for coming to see your baby. I'm more likely to get people presents for letting me have my own time with baby and not coming. Call me a grouch. The baby is the present.

Nope. I don't bother with baby announcements either besides facebook. Our thank you cards for any gifts usually include a pic and that's all. I did get my husband a humidor for our "last baby" present with a selection of cigars in it for him to share with my dad and a couple of his friends who like to smoke the odd cigar. He always smokes them with them though, doesn't hand them out.

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brielise15

No. I agree that it just seems like everyone is inventing reasons to spend money on gifts these days. We won't be doing push presents, gifts for the nurses/doctors, and didn't do hostess gifts aside from the favors we gave at the shower. I had never heard of all these things until I came on here!! I think the baby is the gift and considering I'm not overly looking forward to visitors right after the baby has arrived I definitely don't want to reward them for coming!! lol

I am with you. I've talked to my friends who have older kids about push presents, gifts for the nurses, hostess gifts for shower hosts, etc and they've all looked at me like I am insane. I think candy cigars are a cute idea, but the gift expectations are getting out of hand!

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ozat12

I'm giving these cookies. A friend has a business so it's a great way to support her.

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kellnmj3

Never heard about it. And I will Def not be spending money on visitors, thank you cards from gifts received is enough and if you had a good staff for you prenatal and L & D I can understand a cookie basket just to show appreciation but I will not be buying gifts of any kind because I had a baby, HELLO that's the greatest gift in itself, plus who has extra money to spend on others when the baby will need tons and tons of stuff for the first few years?!

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AJPsMommy

I bought a pack of pink suckers that said its a girl and gave them to visitors. The box of suckers cost like $5 at Burlington's :).

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Mary_0809

That sounds like a cute idea! Do it! It's not something I'd considered and I won't be doing it. The only person I'm giving a gift to will be the lady who's covering for me at work for 3 months (gift basket) and possibly the lady at work who throws my shower (small gift card in the thank you note), if it seems like she went to a lot of trouble.

This is getting to be too much! No more gifts! No one is expecting anything. I'm exhausted already at 38 weeks and I'm not spending my energy on making gifts for visitors who only come to see the baby in the first place. I agree with PP, the baby is the gift. That's it. No push presents, no sibling presents, no grandparent presents, just baby. Just let the day or days be about the baby, not about gifts or visitors.

A present a husband gets for the wife or the baby's father gets for the baby's mother for pushing the baby out... Like the baby isn't enough.

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NotanAprilFools

WOW!!!! Wasn't trying to cause a stir!! I guess this tradition is nonexistent!!! I guess a long long time ago Back when friends & family came to visit at the hospital no one knew the gender so the parents would pass out a SMALL gift to everyone revealing the gender & celebrate!!! This was before push presents & nurse/doc gifts etc.... We are team green so I thought it would be a fun way to reveal the gender!!! I Wasn't saying we all need to go buy more gifts!!!!!!

I'm not having any visitors at the hospital :) and very happy about it lol

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brunettebandit

It might be a southern thing, but I got my hostesses for all of my showers hostess gifts. Nothing huge, but they all spent a lot of money on the events and I felt so appreciative I wanted to get them something thoughtful. For example, my best friend got a bottle of our favorite wine (Only $10 LOL) with a funny card I wrote that said, "Drink some for me!"

Other than that, everyone else is getting an awesome sweet new little baby to love on that took me 9 months to bake. That should suffice.

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Blueberryjam

I've never done one. This is my third boy, to top it off I'm SUPER broke but I think it'd be fun. I think I saw blue lollipops or something of that nature in the party isle at Wal-Mart. I might do that. I'm afraid with having a c-section again that I'll be so tired and out of it I'll forget! But my 10 yr old would probably love being in charge of them. :)

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